BPage 55
- English Word Bastardy Definition The procreation of a bastard child.
- English Word Baste Definition To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
- English Word Baste Definition To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- English Word Baste Definition To mark with tar, as sheep.
- English Word Baste Definition To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
- English Word Basted Definition of Baste
- English Word Bastile Bastille Definition A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
- English Word Bastile Bastille Definition "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
- English Word Bastinade Definition See Bastinado, n.
- English Word Bastinade Definition To bastinado.
- English Word Bastinado Definition A blow with a stick or cudgel.
- English Word Bastinado Definition A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
- English Word Bastinado Definition To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.
- English Word Bastinadoes Definition of Bastinado
- English Word Bastinadoes Definition of Bastinado
- English Word Bastinadoing Definition of Bastinado
- English Word Basting Definition of Baste
- English Word Bastion Definition A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
- English Word Bastioned Definition Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- English Word Basto Definition The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.
- English Word Baston Definition A staff or cudgel.
- English Word Baston Definition See Baton.
- English Word Baston Definition An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.
- English Word Basyle Definition A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.
- English Word Basylous Definition Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous.
- English Word Bat Definition A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
- English Word Bat Definition Shale or bituminous shale.
- English Word Bat Definition A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- English Word Bat Definition A part of a brick with one whole end.
- English Word Bat Definition To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.